From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 27 11:25:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25237 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:25:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25218 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA03542; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:24:02 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199808271824.LAA03542@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk Subject: Re: Stub MTA for lab machines (sendmail replacement) In-Reply-To: <199808271716.SAA28082@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Thu, 27 Aug 98 18:16 +0100 >From: Justin Murdock >I'm looking for a very very simple sendmail replacement - >there is no incoming SMTP; _ALL_ mail is to be thrown at >the mailserver; no queueing necessary - graceful failure >if the server is down is OK. Smail would be overkill for >this. >Is there anything around? What I have done for situations like this is use sendmail: * configuration based on "null client" prototype in cf/cf/clientproto.mc; * no running sendmail in daemon mode. Simple; easy to configure & understand. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message